#memory

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#imagination #memory #mistress #servant #wife

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything? ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#chip #could #everything #head #into

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#past #sweet #troubles

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#extend #images #impulse #limit #memory

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. ↗

— John Dewey

#desire #heart #memory #nearer #reality

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own. ↗

— John Doolittle

#america #amount #attacks #avenging #commitment

The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day. ↗

— John Doolittle

#day #diluted #families #four #hearts

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#another #aside #back #begin #blotting